AFAIK this is built into the RPM spec file (ie. pre and post commands) so that the daemon gets stopped, then upgraded, then started. I have never experienced the problem you are describing with yum... Could your mysqld config files be screwed up? If you do a 'service mysql start' after it has been upgraded, does it start OK? -Jeff On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 08:34, Seth Shoemaker wrote: > It seems that when yum updates certain programs (such as mysql) that it > stops them, to upgrade them, but never starts them back up. Is this a > configuration problem, or just something that I need to watch for in the > future? The main problem I have with this is that if I set my machines > to auto update using yum and it stops programs such as mysql that I need > to have running all of the time, this is a bad thing! > > Thanks. > > Seth Shoemaker
